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Evaluating Syndrome Definitions in the Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology
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The Extended Syndromic Surveillance Ontology (ESSO) is an open source terminological ontology designed to facilitate the text mining of clinical reports in English [1,2]. At the core of ESSO are 279 clinical concepts (for example, fever, confusion,… read more… Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2011); … -
Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance
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We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more… examining sentences causing the errors in separate text documents. We are building a framework to simplify results … a lexicon-building tool to mine synonyms from clinical documents and the UMLS Metathesaurus. Conclusions … -
Building an automated Bayesian case detection system
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Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more… L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med … -
An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports
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Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more… L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med …